I wouldn’t want to live there. I can’t think of anyone I know that would want to live there.

So President Trump really nailed this one. And my…Democrats are pissed.

Let them be pissed – it don’t mean nothin’.

Democrats simply can’t win. They can’t translate their faux-outrage into actual wins at the ballot box. And my how they resent this.

Hence, the lashing-out.

They’ll lash out at anything, these days. Most of the things they get angry about don’t affect you, however. In fact, many of the things the Dems get angry about would actually help you.

Take the shitholes.

How is America benefitting from an influx of Haitians and Africans?

I can’t think of one way.

These people are uneducated. They’re not trained for American jobs. And on top of it, if they should come to America, they’ll be dependent on taxpayer handouts for years.

Well…we know how America ‘benefits’ because we’ve followed the money. Take the refugee ‘issue’:

One of the largest refugee resettlement groups actually made $682 million in revenue in 2016. $256 million of that was used to pay themselves (plus $21 million in office expenses and $18 million in employee benefits), while just $21 million was spent on housing refugees.

If you have the audacity to mention this, you’ll be called a racist.

These refugees are actually more profitable if they don’t work. That way the ‘charities’ that see to ‘their needs’ can keep rolling in the money.

If they ever do get on their feet, it’ll just be in low-level service industry-style jobs.

Democrats need more people like this in the country – dependent people that will always look for someone else to take care of them.

And of course those dependents will vote Democratic…if they even vote at all.

That’s really what this shithole debate is about – future Democratic voters.

Dems need shithole natives, and badly. Without ‘em, Dems might not be able to take back this country.

Tester’s Sad Sauce

It’s so sad that one of Tester’s ‘strengths’ is also one of his biggest weaknesses.

I’m talking about veterans.

I heard on the radio this morning that Missoula had 53 veterans kill themselves last year. One of the highest rates in the country, right here in Missoula.

A couple years ago we often talked about the 22 veterans a day that were killing themselves in this country…but then talk like that became unpopular.

Alas, the talk might have stopped…but the suicides have not.

Tester touts his veteran’s bills, and the fact that Trump has signed them. Despite this, nothing in veterans’ lives has improved.

And nothing will.

Falling All Over Themselves

How ‘bout them MT Dems yesterday?

Pretty low-key press conference in the Capitol. I saw they had Jen Gross – someone that was appointed – and Virginia Jenny Eck, doing the speeches in the ol’ rotunda.

Lot to get excited about, huh?

It’ll be fun to see how much Dems spend this year. It’ll be fun to see them lose bigtime come November. Then in January, it’ll be business as usual…all according to GOP rules, of course.

Dems will hunker down, making the most of their minority status. They’re very good at this – they’ve been in the minority since 1991.

But maybe this year will be different.

Maybe the highly-paid staffers at Dem HQ will come up with some new ideas, even a way to win.

But I doubt it.

For one thing, winning isn’t in their best interests.

I mean…if Dems in Montana were winning, why donate money to the Party?

A perpetual minority status is actually better for fundraising. That way you can bitch and complain and cry in your beer…sending it all out in spam emails.

We’re losers…please give us money!

Just doesn’t quite have the same ring as, We’ve won the legislature and we can finally get our way…please give us money!

Anyone that’s dug into the MT Dem finances knows quite clearly that the sole function of the Party is to pay themselves, feed themselves, and travel themselves around.

Helping candidates run for office is not a function of the Party. Helping themselves is.

Wally-World

Can you imagine any of those $3,000-to-$5,000 a month paid staffers at MT Dem HQ actually working at Walmart?

I can’t. I can’t imagine those folks doing any kind of real work.

I might get a job at Walmart. Hell…they’ll start you at $11 an hour.

When I worked at the University last night, I made a dime over minimum wage.

When I go to work downtown tonight, I will make minimum wage.

So making $11 an hour appeals to me. Something else is that I put in about 10 applications/resumes a week into various Missoula businesses, yet I rarely get any kind of response.

So maybe I’ll be working at Walmart soon. I think it’d give this site a whole new perspective.

That’s kind of a big thing on this site…having a regular, working person’s perspective.

You simply don’t get this on any other Montana blog. Whether it’s the school teacher at ID, the state staffers at Cowgirl, or the retired folks at Last Best News and Flathead Memo…you just don’t get a working man’s perspective.

But on this site you do.

I mean, hell…I tell you my income! I tell you about my jobs and what happens and what I learn.

No other sites do this.

I’ll continue to do my best to keep my finger on the pulse of the working people of this country, and I’ll do my best to tell you what they think.

That Damn OPI Director/Zinke

I saw that Elsie Arntzen was up in the Flathead yesterday, checking out a school’s new construction, and encouraging students to think about construction as a job.

She’s smart.

Young Montanans would do a lot better for themselves and their families by getting a job in construction.

Zinke ain’t ever coming back to Montana. Should Trump lose in 2020 – or, as I think is more likely, he doesn’t run again – Zinke isn’t coming back here.

There are plenty of K Street and L Street and M Street marketing and lobbying firms that’ll hire him up. That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in income, if not millions. Plus, he’s not accountable to voters.

Why trade that in for a crummy taxpayer-funded, elected office?

Alas, we’ll never see the MT blogs get over their hard-on for Zinke.

I have no problem with this. In fact, I like it when Dems spin their wheels in the mud like this. The elites like it, too – helps with brining those donations in.

Nice to see that you're still a racist piece of shit with no clue. Probably contributing factors to your being an unelectable joke.

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Greg Strandberg

1/12/2018 02:03:36 pm

As I mentioned in the article, "If you have the audacity to mention this, you’ll be called a racist."

I truly do think most Montanans agree with Trump's shit hole comments. Of course, not everyone will. And that's fine.

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Greg Strandberg

1/12/2018 06:41:51 pm

Additional thoughts on Haiti:

I started to think tonight...'How in fact did Haiti become such a shithole?'

The faculty of St. Louis's Webster University had some interesting facts.

For instance, Haiti is 90% illiterate, and it's "higher in the rural areas." Just 30% of kids in Haiti start school, and only 2% make it past 5th grade.

Here's another big problem: corruption.

"Time and again, over and over in the 182 years of so-called freedom, the Haitian elite and government officials have sidetracked much of this wealth for their own purposes. Haiti faces the incredibly difficult task of dealing with corruption that is so established, so all-persuasive as to be an accepted social practice."

Workers in American companies make the $2 minimum wage and agricultural workers make $1 a day. "However, the American firms who own and run these plants earn fantastic rates of return on capital, profits entirely generated by the labor of the Haitians."

Here's another fun article I found, one that I think many of you will enjoy:

"Haiti is a bottom drawer source of migrants not just for the United States, but pretty much any other country in the Western hemisphere. The people have no skills to offer, they have low levels of English (or even Spanish) competency, they have high rates of crime, their cities look and smell horrible, and they hail from the country with the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS outside of Africa.

Much in the same way that low-crime, clean, and orderly Northeast Asian countries are wise for not having much of an immigration policy at all, it would be completely anti-humanist for the well being of citizens of the United States to tolerate the idea of Haiti being a “strength” building source of diversity.

Norwegians on the other hand, are the most common ethnic background of people in the U.S. state of North Dakota. It has one of the lowest crime rates in the nation, the people are incredibly friendly, they possess a strong protestant work ethic, and North Dakota, where many Americans with Norwegian ancestry reside, is the most fiscally responsible state.

President Trump is 100% correct on the Norway-versus-Haiti debacle. New immigrants from the former would help maintain 1st world living standards, while the latter would inevitably turn Tampa into ‘Tampon’."

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This Montana history blog is working its way up through time.It began in March 2013 with the early geology of Montana and continues on toward recent Montana history. Currently we're edging up into the 1990s.